Lifesign: The Feral Justice Mysteries Book 1

by J.E. Hopkins

Cincinnati, capital of The Great Lakes Region, United North America.

A police detective’s wife is brutally murdered. Autocrats concealed behind a pervasive and corrupt bureaucracy bury the case and threaten to do the same to anyone—cop or not—who seeks to uncover the truth. If there’s to be any retribution for the dead woman, it will come from an unlikely an iconoclastic former military investigator called Feral Justice.

But Feral is facing his own rendezvous with death. Without warning, his Lifesign—an infallible genetic marker—signals that he will soon die. Outcast and cut off from society, he joins the homeless on the streets of a dystopian Cincinnati crowded with climate refugees. His only chance for social redemption and survival is to solve the murder and find a reprieve from his Lifesign in a secretive network used only by traitors.

This suspense-filled mystery is populated with intriguing characters, including Feral’s smart-mouth embedded AI and a feisty partner with a penchant for leather and exposed body parts.

260 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

I have been writing ever since I can remember. It has always been a passion of mine. It's the perfect way to express whatever emotions I'm feeling for which I cannot vocalize. Writing is my true voice. It's also an avenue to let loose the creative juices that are constantly flowing but that have no place in my primary profession.

I am a full-time practicing attorney in New York. My original plan when I began college at New York University was to become a sports reporter. That dream eventually passed (although my interest has not waned) and I went to law school immediately after completing my undergraduate degree. Ever since then I have been practicing law and enjoying every moment of the profession. Although I loved the law, I missed the excitement of creative writing—telling stories and evoking emotions with words. That inspired me to finally realize my dream of writing a novel.

In 2007 I published my first novel, The Broken. It's an emotional story of a young woman's journey to overcome the devastation of years of horrid child abuse at the hands of her uncle. At the time, I had not intended on writing another story, but reawakening my love of writing led me to create Lover's Betrayal. As long as that desire is there, I will continue to write stories I hope others enjoy as much as I enjoy creating them.